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     Gobadgers |
Just a reminder to keep your eyes peeled for deer. Unusual for me, today I was seeing a number of them during the middle of the day, along with a number of other critters crossing the road. Always makes me wonder how many I do not see. However, near the end of the day, they were making it easy for me to spot them: Two albino deer.  | ||
| Figorvonbuellingham |
Wow two whites at once....rare. I saw one about 25 years ago. A friend of mine is in the hospital right now from a deer strike. Pretty bad shape but they think he will make it. Worries me as I've got a 500 mile journey home beginning at about 5pm tonight. | ||
| Brother_in_buells |
Saw a couple in Finland back in 2009 | ||
| Gobadgers |
I see you list Famagusta as home. Did your friend get hurt in Cyprus? I imagine you are someplace else as you would be hard pressed to get half that mileage home in Cyprus.  Hope that your friend gets well soon; my prayers today include him. Thanks for your reminder too as I do not stay near as aware as I should, nor think that someone can get hurt as badly as your friend. I put this picture on my Facebook page too and my friend who lives just outside of Famagusta humored my with a comment "are you sure they weren't goats?" I keep a mountain bike in Cyprus, but wish that I had a motorcycle to ride there too. I love riding in the mountains. Hoping you have a safe trip today. | ||
| Aesquire |
There's a herd of white deer on the former Seneca Army depot. It is expected they will breed back into the local population now that the fences are being removed. ( former site of lesbian anti-war anti-nuke protest tent city too. I have stories about that crazy camp... ) Living in the country if I don't see deer on the road I assume I just didn't see them. This May when I was hobbling around on a walker I hired a friend's mowing service. A buddy's wife & her bestie. ... he came along to help, used my old tractor and chased a dozen deer out of my yard maze right in front of her partner on her mower. Riding buddy down the road cut a deer in half with his Sabre. Landed in mud well off the road & woke up suffocating with his helmet full. Not a bruise on him. New fork later..... the Honda dealer dropped off his bike with a flatbed truck. When he started it the deer guts crammed in the radiator started to......smell. We were not popular at the local do it yourself pressure wand car wash. ...... not at all. | ||
| Aesquire |
Some may think me critter paranoid but I've had to brake hard for deer twice this week. Much worse when hunting season starts. Looking at my backyard right now I bet if I stepped out on my porch and started belting out Monkeys tunes offkey heavy metal style there would be a zerg rush out of the yard. Wouldn't blame them. | ||
| 86129squids |
Saw a few on the side of Pellissippi Pky about dusk, heading home last night at 70-80 aboard the Beemer... got the heebie-jeebies... Behavior: Generally when it's *dark* they go sleep somewhere, right? I know that when it's rutting season things get unpredictable. I ask because I've never hunted them/studied them, sure don't want to collide with them.  | ||
| Aesquire |
Dusk, morning and evening, is when they are most active. Edges. Deer stay close to edges of fields, of swamps, of creeks... and fade away from danger in either direction. Deer are funneled by terrain, fences, brush, a lot like you would be... So, Deer cross roads at the edge of a field and the woods. By preference. But also anywhere the brush is closest to the road, for better cover, and anywhere at all, because Deer don't read road signs or nature books. | ||
| 86129squids |
Thanks! I like eating them... as a kid, petting them, as a motorcyclist, avoiding them! | ||
| Leftcoastal |
A friend of mine has a crazy deer collision story. He was in western Montana, Yellowstone vicinity, riding his BMW. He'd been riding with a couple of other bike guys he'd met on the road. It was getting late into the night and they were hustling pretty good to get to the next town for the night. He said he was a bit behind the other 2 riders, doing roughly 80, when a deer jumped straight in front of him and he nailed it before he had a chance to evade or brake. Down he went, bike essentially totalled. The other 2 realized he wasn't there, and returned, finding him in a heap in the road. Broken collar bone was the only real injury other than lots of bruising and such. (Lucky he survived at all!) They got him out of the road and propped him up against a tree and went to town for help. So, he's sitting there in the middle of the night, middle of nowhere, beat to a pulp and unable to move. A old beat-up car comes along and the driver stops. A couple of men get out of the car and go over the the dead deer, still on the side of the road. They talk among themselves and go back to the car and talk to someone inside. This older Native American lady gets out, comes over to Rick where his propped up against that tree, and says "You didn't break the sack, the meat is still good." And walks back to the car. The 2 men load up the deer in the trunk and away they go. An hour or so later the ambulance and tow truck show up and haul him and the bike to town. He told me that he was waiting for Rod Serling (spelling?) to show up out of the woods and tell him he'd just entered the Twilight Zone! | ||
| Aesquire |
Don't know how to find it anymore... But there was a story on Bikernet on riding a Buell to Sturgis. The project chopper wasn't going to get done, so he took the Cyclone project bike, and it was the ONLY story about those trips that didn't have mechanical horror stories about badly engineered machines and multiple breakdowns... until he hit the deer. One of the reasons I have a yard maze is to increase the number of "edges" for wildlife to live. One day I'm going to put a tower stand right in the middle and get dinner with a Bow. ( Too close to a home for autistic kids to shoot a shotgun, IMHO ) If you're planning on a Western NY deer hunt in 2017 and want a try, let me know and I'll start shopping for a tower blind after this season. ( I'll be laid up for a couple of months about that time... and the stands will be cheaper after the season ) | ||
| Figorvonbuellingham |
@Gobadgers: No I'm not from Cyprus....lol. I have been there though. My son lived there for a few years. It's actually how I got into sportbike riding. I was hardcore Harley rider and while there one summer wanted to rent a Harley to tool around the island. We couldn't find any Harley rentals so I thought well I'll just rent a sport bike and no one will know back home...lol. Well it was like I was made for one. I used to go through about 4 pairs of pegs on my Harley a year taking it through the twisties. I got home and bought a sportbike and haven't looked back since. I just wish I had got on one earlier, but I was raised and had that mindset that Harleys are the only real motorcycle...blah blah blah...man did riding a sport bike in Cyprus really open my mind up. So I'm no longer a Harley rider....im a motor cycle enthusiast. | ||
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